It is interesting that the same problem, with $5$ changed to $4$, is solved in less than $0.1$ seconds with MMA 8, and with $5$ changed to $7$, the solution also takes less than $0.1$ seconds (although it's trivially expressed in terms of DifferenceRoot, which is just another way of giving up). With $5$ changed to $6$, a useful solution is obtained in $6$ seconds.
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whuberDec 21 '12 at 17:58

This problem does not appear to affect version 10.1.0 as the system is solved in about 22 seconds on my machine. Could someone check to see if v9 is affected so that we can mark this accordingly?
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Mr.Wizard♦Jul 29 at 23:59

@Mr.Wizard It's already solved in v9. Well, I remember this has already been mentioned in a comment but it no longer exists, strange…BTW I think it's better to mark this as a "backslide" nowadays :)
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xzczdJul 30 at 5:27

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